[Reader-list] Remixing Culture: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig

[Anivar Aravind]

Interview with Lawrence lessig on Remixing Culture:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2005/02/24/lessig.html

What do you get when you mix P2P, inexpensive digital input devices,
open source software, easy editing tools, and reasonably affordable
bandwidth? Potentially, you get what Lawrence Lessig calls remix
culture: a rich, diverse outpouring of creativity based on creativity.
This is not a certain future, however. Peer-to-peer is on the verge of
being effectively outlawed. Continuation of the current copyright
regime would mean that vast quantities of creative content will be
forever locked away from remix artists.

Lessig is joining the battle for the remix future on several fronts:
the court battle on the legality of P2P; another legal battle to free
"orphan works" from their copyright gulag; rolling out new Creative
Commons "sampling licenses" with the help of big-name artists like
David Byrne; and supporting the "free culture" work of Brazilian
musician and culture minister Gilberto Gil toward a society based on
freedom of culture.

Full Text is on : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2005/02/24/lessig.html

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Anivar Aravind